"Well, I've been reporting a lot and calling … " And blah, blah — in my nervousness I went on, explaining the intricacies of reporting to Ben Bradlee for three or four minutes.
Along with pink slips, two or three dozen fired workers got letters informing them that to receive full severance benefits, they had to agree in writing to say nothing that would "disparage, discredit, defame or belittle" The News, its officers, its employees, its affiliates -- blah, blah, blah in predictably numbing legalese.
As the words accumulate so the temptation mounts to read the book in accordance with Frank's own "telescoped version of the whole cancer rigmarole: blah, blah, blah, blah, in earnest hope of gaining blah, blah, blah, blah, and better blah, blah, blah, blah..."...
You know the kind: "Initech, the leading blah in blah blah blah, has partnered with Initrode, leader in blah blah blahblah blah blah blah".
The latter was capped by guitarist Alex Lifeson's nearly three-minute recitation of the phrase "Blah blah blah" in every possible way of expressing it, perhaps his answer to the many critics who have lambasted the group over its four-decade career for taking itself too seriously.
Do not stop writing, even if you need to just write "blah blah blah" in the middle of a sentence.
"I like it when my work is sensual and to the point, with not too much blah-blah-blah in it," she says.
He had had his own problems with the blah-blah-blah in 1985, when he abruptly halted a long and exhausting championship match in Moscow between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.
Even evergreens get the blahs in midwinter, when they look good only because the alternative is no green at all.
"He always had a standing joke about how he got 11 Christmas cards," she said, "because there were 12 bad blah-blah-blahs in the world" who exchanged cards only with one another.
MIDNIGHT (HBO2) HALL PASS (2011) Owen Wilson, below, and Jason Sudeikis star as middle-aged buddies with the requisite paunches and innocently wandering eyes who are experiencing the marriage blahs in this comedy from the brothers Bobby and Peter Farrelly.
